Thinking Quotes

Maybe a deal was possible earlier. And maybe, in retrospect, looking back, you could say this was a moment you could have jumped on. If so, shame on us. I tend to think not.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.

The Democrats' ads convince me that Governor Romney can't sing, but his record convinces me he knows how to lead, and I think you know which skill we need more.

I sometimes think I was perhaps the only girl in India whose mother said, "Whatever you do, don't get married". For me, when I see a bride, it gives me a rash. I find them ghoulish, almost.

I think my eyes were knocked open and they don't close. I sometimes wish I could close them and look away.

They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter.

As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them.

The minute what you think of as radical becomes an institutionalised, funded operation, you're in some trouble.

One of the reasons some people get so angry with me is because I have the space now that a lot of others who think like me don't.

Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it.

I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.

Whenever I write a part, I think there's this person somewhere in the world that this part is specifically for and all I have to do is go searching to find that particular individual.

I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history.

I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable.

I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized art form. Not as much as music, but very close to music.

I'm still very careless about my public persona. Not careless so to speak but I'm not one for fame. I think fame is the worst part about it.

At some point in my life I thought it was good to specialize, but now I think it's good to build a bigger product than just music.

I think you get noticed a lot more as a brunette, but I don't know. People approach me, I think, but maybe it's because of the reality show.

I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life.

I think with vampires, you can't really go wrong. For generations, vampires have been a hit because they're unobtainable, mysterious, sensual, dangerous, kind of sexy.

I think my mom gets weirded out, sometimes, by people knowing so much about me or people always asking questions.

I think exercising and eating fairly clean does wonders for your skin.

I think that music is a very, very powerful thing, especially when you have a movement like this [CBGB club] to shed new light on music and the power of it.

I don't like watching myself. That's kind of weird but you know it's not me really, it's this character, which I think might make it a little easier.

Except, I think, it's more about me growing up and becoming an adult that I have this new best-friend type of relationship with my mom.

I think that I'm very old fashioned in terms of my film references and what appeals to me, in a way with camera moves and a depth of color to bring things to it.

My mom is really great with me and for me, because I think she makes an effort to make sure there is some normalcy in my life, and her and my dad don't really treat me any differently.

I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.

I think we should be proud of the fact that our face has got lines, because at least that means we have lived.

I'm thinking of Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music... there are too many to name really. And all the old classic ones like Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs and Bambi. That's brutal!

I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.

I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality here in town.

I love women that have an ease to the way they dress. I think Vanessa Paradis and Alexa Chung do that very well.

Now before I work out, I think, 'I love exercise,' and it works.

I think fame can come and go.

I think whenever any guys come along they're intimidated, and they don't really talk that much unless I talk to them.

I love change, and I love changing my hair. But it was strange to look in the mirror and think 'Who is this girl?'

I think nothing ever ends on Disney Channel. They keep playing it.

I actually liked Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I remember just watching it and being pleasantly surprised with that movie. I didn't think it would be as good as it was, so I love that movie.

Coaching secrets? I don't think I got any. The main "secret" - love for chess.

It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.

I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.